Warren Huston

Huston was born in 1913 in Newtonville, Massachusetts,[1] and graduated from Newton High School in 1933.[2] He attended Springfield College as a member of the class of 1937,[3] where he played college football as a halfback and college baseball as a shortstop.[4] He was the captain of the football team during their 1936 season, his senior year.[5] He played four seasons in minor league baseball: 1938, 1942, 1943, and 1945.[6] Statistics for his minor league career are incomplete; in his final season, 1945 with the Columbus Red Birds, he had a .243 batting average with 31 RBIs.[6]

Huston played two seasons in the major leagues.[1] In 1937, he appeared in 38 games with the Philadelphia Athletics, playing as a shortstop, second baseman, and third baseman.[1] He hit .130 (7-for-54) with three RBIs.[1] In 1944, with many younger players serving in the military due to World War II, Huston returned to the major leagues with the Boston Braves.[1] He played in 33 games, again at three infield positions, batting .200 (11-for-55) with one RBI.[1] At the end of the season, Huston was traded to the St. Louis Cardinals in exchange for first baseman Joe Mack.[1] Huston would spend 1945 in the minor leagues,[1] while Mack appeared in 66 games for the Braves in his only season as a major leaguer.[7] Overall, Huston hit .165 in his 71 career major league games, with a .933 fielding average.[8]

Following his playing career, Huston managed a collegiate summer baseball team, the Brattleboro Maples of the Northern League, during 1946 and part of the 1947 season.[9][10] He served as head football coach back in his hometown at Newton High School circa 1947–1952.[11][12] Huston was inducted to the Springfield College athletic hall of fame in 1977,[3] and the Newton Public Schools athletic hall of fame in 2005.[13] He died in 1999 in Wareham, Massachusetts.[1]

• Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference, or Baseball Reference (Minors), or Retrosheet